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They're good for college students who aren't into gaming. AKA people with lives

Hurricane wrote:

[-DER-]Omega wrote:

They're good for college students who aren't into gaming. AKA people with lives

How are they good? No wonder college students bitch about eating ramen all day, they spend all their money on overpriced computers.

lulz

Answering your question, I recommend you take a read at The myth of the overpriced mac.

Steven Jobs once said that "We can’t ship junk. There are thresholds we can’t cross because of who we are. The difference is, we don’t offer stripped-down, lousy products." Also, reliability is a big pro. PC Magazine once did an article that stated "Look no further than Apple, the leader of the pack, whose overall score holds steady at 9.1. Last year, Apple’s score on units needing repair was an impressive 11 percent — well below that of any other company in the survey. But according to readers, the company has managed to cut repair rates even further over the past 12 months. This year, Apple’s score on units needing repair drops to 8 percent. Among first-year systems, it’s only 5 percent. That’s nothing less than astonishing."

Think about software solutions too. iWorks is what.. $50? And it can read office files and so on. Microsoft Office? In excess of $150.

Last edited by kylef (2007-12-19 14:04:43)

EA just got a contract with Mac, besides....

I have an iMac at college so I can get my work done and Mac OS X prevents me from gaming Well there are still some games that can be played, but still, they're crappy games and I'm going to have to deal with the low performance, thus the deterrent At home however I have a good gaming PC so I do my gaming there.


In my college at least half if not more students in my year and lower have Macs. They currently offer discounts for college students. Also as kylef linked us

   

* Industrial design. Apple hardware is designed to look good and work well. Just take a look at the robust and elegant design of a PowerMac G5. Beautiful. Solid. Most Wintel PC manufacturers seem to use whatever piece of plastic they can find to stuff their components into. And then they paint it black or beige and finish their non-design by putting a few stickers on it.

It looks awesome. The iMac has it all in one monitor. However, aesthetics aside, Mac OS X crashes programs on me just as much as Windows Vista, and sometimes it's impeccably slow.

The reason why Macs are so expensive is because Apple is vertically integrated, meaning they are in charge of everything that comprises the computer. That means they can make it sync together and work better together, at the cost of a lower price. Other makers of computers can just outsource different components to different companies who can make components at cheaper prices. Basically like how my friend built my very top shelf gaming PC for me for only $1500 using new egg. However, getting all the components from one company (Apple) would make it more expensive as that company may not be as efficient in making a certain component at a cheaper price.

However, Apple has made some efforts to outsource components to other companies, such as the new Intel based iMacs, etc. They used to have their own processor unit.

All in all though, Macs are more expensive in relation to their comparably lower performance only because they have mainly all the components under control of their company and do not outsource components to different companies. This is done so that the computers that Apple makes can be harmoniously synchronized.

agent146 wrote:

[-DER-]Omega wrote:

They're good for college students who aren't into gaming. AKA people with lives

ya thats the arguement that i get alot actually lol. that non mac users are gaming geeks and mac people have "lives" but there is a flaw in that. why the bloddy hell do you need such an expensive computer then? jeez my buddy has a macpro book and all he does is use it for the internet and facebook.
and besides a real collge students only needs his pens and paper. YAA PEN AND PAPER 4 ever man....unless he is in graphic design and compute science... but thats different.

i dont' have anything against mac system either. what i am against is "elite" mac users whom are smacktards who think they have "itunes" and "imovies" and thus they more leet them me and that viruses dont' attack macs . sadly i meet alot of them at my school who tell me to get a macbook pro. but then again the price.

In proper colleges you need a computer and a word processing program. For notes you can use pen and paper. There are college public computers and I guess you can write your paper there if you can't afford the computer. But you can't save any documents on it and so you must upload your work onto your email account everytime.

PCs have iTunes too.

iMovies are simple to use.

The number of viruses that attack Macs are much less, so much that I don't have to buy those gay anti-virus wares that I have to buy for my PC.

stryyker wrote:

Simplified my ass.

I can do all the same things with a PC that I can with my Mac. Except the retarted widgits and finder.

DO NOT INSULT TEH WIDGETS & FINDER!!!


p.s. iCal organizes my life

Answer: Visual goods.

Not my stuff, so I'll stick to Windoze and Linux.

http://enthusiast.hardocp.com/news.html … FzdCwsLDE=


If i was to ever move from windows it would be to linux.
NOT mac

never mac
Its not so much the OS i dislike (but i do) its the users and the adverts and the egos .... :shudders:

Last edited by [PTG]shogun (2007-12-19 15:15:07)

kylef wrote:

Answering your question, I recommend you take a read at The myth of the overpriced mac.

Steven Jobs once said that "We can’t ship junk. There are thresholds we can’t cross because of who we are. The difference is, we don’t offer stripped-down, lousy products." Also, reliability is a big pro. PC Magazine once did an article that stated "Look no further than Apple, the leader of the pack, whose overall score holds steady at 9.1. Last year, Apple’s score on units needing repair was an impressive 11 percent — well below that of any other company in the survey. But according to readers, the company has managed to cut repair rates even further over the past 12 months. This year, Apple’s score on units needing repair drops to 8 percent. Among first-year systems, it’s only 5 percent. That’s nothing less than astonishing."

Think about software solutions too. iWorks is what.. $50? And it can read office files and so on. Microsoft Office? In excess of $150.

That's hilarious.

Utter nonsense too.

They overpriced, over hyped pieces of crap. They crash just as much as PCs. If youre doing high quality video/picture editing youre going to be using Adobe, which is for PC too. They dont have viruses because there arent many people using them, and the virus making douchebags dont feel like makinga virus that wont hit many people. The lack compatibitly problems is only because is its ONE company making things rather than a whole bunch.

macs are stylish and the new panther OS is just amazing. and you can play Chessmaster on it!!!